Auditor-General sounds alarm on immigration policy

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Auditor-General Sheila Fraser has exposed major problems with key aspects of Canada's immigration system, releasing a damning report that finds Ottawa is bringing in big changes with little understanding of the potential consequences.

In a report tabled Tuesday in Parliament, Ms. Fraser said decisions in the Canadian immigration system are increasingly shifted to provinces and Canadian employers without any follow-up to root out fraud and abuse.

She took direct aim at the foreign worker program, which brings in an increasing number of often low-skilled workers for jobs ranging from oil sands labourers to construction workers on Olympics facilities and live-in nannies.

Ms. Fraser said little is being done to catch the abuse occurring on all sides of the program. Workers are particularly vulnerable, she said, given that they often don't speak English, and owe their status in Canada to their employer.

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